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Mel Gibson talkin' to De Niro about eco-thriller
Stars align for Edge of Darkness |
Sarah van Schagen |
05 Aug 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Mel Gibson: Hey, De Niro, you wanna star in an eco-thriller with me? Robert De Niro: You talkin' to me?Gibson: Yes, I'm talkin' to you. It's called Edge of Darkness; it's based on that BBC miniseries. Are you familiar with it? De Niro: You talkin' to me?Gibson: Yeah, it's about this homicide detective (that'd be me) who uncovers government and corporate cover-ups when his environmental activist daughter is murdered.De Niro: You talkin' to me?Gibson: Yes, Bobby, ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, green living, movies (all these topics) |
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Gossip whirl
Gossip Girl, <em |
Holly Richmond |
31 Jul 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Spotted: B and S mugging for the camera. The cast of the CW's Gossip Girl are forgoing bottled water in favor of bringing their own mugs to the set. And stars Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, and Penn Badgley appear in three short eco-ads, below: In other celeb news you can reuse, Alexis Bledel of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 is promoting the travel of your old pants (specifically jeans) to New Orleans for recycling into insulation. I won't say green i ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, green living, movies, recycling, TV, video (all these topics) |
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Lights, camera, eco-action!
New flicks feature green themes |
Sarah van Schagen |
24 Jun 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Photo: rpb1001 The oppressive heat of global warming got you headed to your local air-conditioned movie theater? No? It's just the popcorn? Well, either way, you may end up seeing a blockbuster with an environmental theme. Lately there's been a bumper crop of eco-stuff hitting the big screen or making its way there soon.For starters, you've probably heard the not-so-friendly reviews of The Happening, M. Night Shyamalan's latest showing. But rotten (organic ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, green living, movies (all these topics) |
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Neve gonna get it
Neve Campbell's eco-flick won't air in the U.S. |
Sarah van Schagen |
06 Jun 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Neve Campbell. Burn Up is the (totally and completely fictional) story about a clash between Big Oil and Big Green. The Canadian/British miniseries features Party of Five star Neve Campbell as an environmentalist hired to work for an oil company (as a greenwash decoy, of course, though she doesn't realize it until too late ... mwahahaha).Unfortunately for us Yanks, though, Burn Up will not be airing stateside. (At least not yet.) But if you're one of our lu ... |
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| Topics: Big Oil, celebrity, green living, movies (all these topics) |
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The Iceman melteth
Val Kilmer to star in Arctic horror flick |
Sarah van Schagen |
16 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Photo: © Val Kilmer This summer, the Iceman cometh ... to a horror flick about global warming. The Thaw, which begins shooting mid-June with star Val Kilmer, is based on the premise that melting ice caps reveal a woolly mammoth hosting a deadly prehistoric parasite that comes back to life to infect the world ... mwa-ha-ha. Ahem.From director Mark A. Lewis:"I think ultimately where this story comes from is the idea or, more accurately, the feeling of vulnerab ... |
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The spy who greened me
Bond film to feature greenwashing eco-villain |
Sarah van Schagen |
08 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Everyone's favorite secret agent is at it again -- and this time he hopes to live and let Greene die. That's right, Craig (Daniel Craig) is filming the next Bond flick as we speak type. Quantum of Solace continues the storyline that began with Casino Royale and finds Bond shaken (not stirred) by the death and betrayal of a loved one. He wants revenge, and he points a (Gold)finger at "eco-entrepreneur" Dominic Greene (the man with the green gun?). Play ... |
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| Topics: business, celebrity, green living, greenwashing, movies (all these topics) |
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DiCaprio's new digs
Leo's new condo full of green amenities, paparazzi |
Sarah van Schagen |
08 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Attention, paparazzi: It's Leonardo DiCaprio's 11th Hour in his current New York abode. He's Departed (or will soon) for a new LEED-certified condo in Manhattan's Battery Park City neighborhood.DiCaprio's new digs are quite the eco-residence, featuring solar panels, a green roof, and units "decked out with locally obtained renewable materials and low- or nonpollutant paints, sealants, and adhesives." Of course, the place also features a 50-foot lap pool, ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, energy, green building, green living, movies, New York, solar voltaic power (all these topics) |
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Oscars: green, but not braggy
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Sarah van Schagen |
25 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
| As I reported last week, the Oscars went green(er) again this year. But if you watched the awards show last night, you might have noticed there was nary a mention of it, aside from a few jokes from Jon Stewart -- quite a contrast to last year's Al-and-Leo show. In other green-award-show news, the Independent Spirit Awards, held Saturday night, also had a green tinge. Ed Begley, Jr., even made an appearance to help power the event via bicycle. Which I believe wa ... |
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And the green award goes to ...
Will Oscar's eco-efforts pale compared to last year? |
Sarah van Schagen |
22 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
| This story has been updated with breaking news about the greening of the Oscars. See below for details. Matt Petersen and Salma Hayek at Global Green's pre-Oscar bash. Photo: Global Green Last year's Academy Awards were a veritable green fest, what with Inconvenient Truth's multiple wins and the Gore/Leo announcement about the Oscars officially going green (albeit via carbon offset). Green itself could have gotten its own award -- perhaps for its role as & ... |
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Coming clean
Kudos to Seventh Generation on a Hollywood moment |
Katharine Wroth |
23 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
| I'm not saying I paid good money to see 27 Dresses this weekend. Nor am I saying that its ending, however formulaic, made me cry. What I am saying is how nice it was to see a generous, nearly full-screen shot of a Seventh Generation cleaning product clutched in Katherine Heigl's frenzied hand. Not to mention some tossed-off comments about corporate eco-responsibility. Hollywood: making green normal since ... late 2007. |
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| Topics: business, celebrity, green cleaning, green living, green products, movies (all these topics) |
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Sundance green?
Green films premiering at Sundance Film Festival |
Sarah van Schagen |
23 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Isabella Rossellini Photo: Duffy-Marie Arnoult / WireImage If you're a super-hip journalist with awesome connections and a sweet gig, you're spending a cush week writing about the Sundance Film Festival from snow- and celeb-covered Park City, Utah. If you're me, you're sitting in front of a computer screen in an office building in Seattle reading about all the super-hip journalists with the awesome connections spending a cush week at Sundance. (Not. ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, green living, movies (all these topics) |
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Paparazzi, can you hear me?
Top green celeb stories of 2007 |
Sarah van Schagen |
20 Dec 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Here are the Official Top Green Celeb Stories of 2007, listed in very particular order and determined via a very scientific process (a combination of my memory and Grist's archives): 5. Brad Pitt adopts Maddox Pax Thien Zahara New Orleans. 4. Leo DiCaprio releases 11th Hour, which sinks into obscurity faster than the Titanic. 3. Primetime television attempts eco-programming; finds out the environment isn't funny. 2. Celeb-studded award shows go green -- ... |
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Hour Town
Leo's feel-good press conference is interrupted by a feel-bad question |
Kate Coe |
29 Aug 2007 |
Grist Feature |
| Leonardo DiCaprio at the premiere of The 11th Hour. Alex Berliner © Berliner Studio/BEImages When celebrities embrace environmental concerns, cranky naysayers pop up like toadstools after a rainstorm. But the mansions and private jets those critics seize upon, while easy targets, might not be the real problem. It might just be that green-leaning celebrities and their handlers need to open the ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, consumerism, green living, Leonardo DiCaprio, messaging, movies (all these topics) |
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The 11th Hour
Leo's new eco-flick |
Adam Browning |
10 Aug 2007 |
Gristmill |
| I saw The 11th Hour last night, a new movie produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio. The movie is a pastiche of interviews of about 50 different thinkers and scientists, interspersed with stock footage of obligatory mountains and seal clubbings. Here's how Leonardo describes it: Some of my thoughts, which do not add up to a review: While the movie is going to get attention because of Leonardo's star power, he's not the star at all. Some of the featured exp ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, climate, David Suzuki, green living, Leonardo DiCaprio, movies (all these topics) |
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Cameron Diaz wants you to make an 'ecospot'
Make a short eco-video about climate change and you could win a Toyota hybrid |
Grist |
10 Jul 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Are you a creative type with a hankering for 15 minutes of fame? Would you settle for 15 seconds? Enter this new eco-video contest and you could win public acclaim -- and a Toyota hybrid. Cameron tells you how: (Having trouble viewing the video? Download the latest version of Flash.) Current TV and the Alliance for Climate Protection (both Gore-driven projects) have teamed up to promote :60 Seconds to Save the Earth, a contest soliciting video public service announcemen ... |
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| Topics: Cameron Diaz, cars, celebrity, climate, climate change mitigation, green living, innovation, movies (all these topics) |
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Lindsay Lohan on going green
And other tips from celebs |
Sarah van Schagen |
21 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Happy Monday, y'all. If your weekend was as awesome as mine (read: not awesome), you'll need some entertaining celeb goss to get you going this week. So here goes:Leonardo DiCaprio announced this weekend during press for his documentary 11th Hour (which I've heard, ps, is not awesome, though I hope I misheard) that he arrived at Cannes via commercial jet and tries to fly commercially as much as possible. He also defended Gore's travel-y lifestyle:The way he travels ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, green living, Leonardo DiCaprio, movies, TV (all these topics) |
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Plus, He Made That Boat Sink
Leonardo DiCaprio brings climate-change film to Cannes |
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21 May 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Plus, He Made That Boat Sink Leonardo DiCaprio brings climate-change film to Cannes A year ago, Al Gore spread the climate-change message at the Cannes Film Festival. Now it's Leonardo DiCaprio's turn. The former boy wonder produced, co-wrote, and narrated The 11th Hour, a documentary that explores how industrial society screwed itself and how it can fix the problem. Relyi ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, climate, David Suzuki, green living, Leonardo DiCaprio, movies, news (all these topics) |
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Tales of the bizarre
My aborted adventure on Fox |
David Roberts |
01 Mar 2007 |
Gristmill |
| I'll tell you a little secret. Late last week, for a few brief, surreal hours, I was scheduled to appear on the Fox News show Hannity & Colmes to discuss ... well, allegedly the greening of the Oscars, but as anyone who's seen the show knows, the real topic was always going to be the hypocrisy of Hollywood limousine liberals blah blah. If that's not bizarre enough, Ann Coulter was scheduled to appear opposite me. And if that's not bizarre enough, hours after I ... |
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Sundance: Robert Redford hates climate change
And other adventures in touching celebrities |
Kate Sheppard |
19 Jan 2007 |
Gristmill |
| I thought my closest brush with fame this week would be nearly taking out James Redford with a boom mic last night. But then I accidentally touched him inappropriately, and later, cornered his father. Son Redford presented Everything's Cool at the special pre-screening last night, giving a glowing account of the film and announcing the family's plan to protect 2,000 additional acres of land in the beautiful area known as the Sundance Preserve. This is when I ac ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, green living, interview, movies, Robert Redford (all these topics) |
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Show Time
A green-carpet report from the Environmental Media Awards |
Yolanda Crous |
10 Nov 2006 |
Main Dish |
| I adore pop culture. I live for the environment. But I rarely have a chance to indulge my two obsessions at the same time. So when I was invited to cover the Environmental Media Awards, I did an Ashlee Simpson-esque jig. Fashion! Hybrids! Great hair! Really, could a gossip-rag-reading, E!-network-loving enviro ask for anything more? (Well, maybe Britney Spears on my Us Weekly Fantasy League team, but ... |
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Catch Him if You Can
Leonardo DiCaprio to produce documentary about global warming |
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07 Dec 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Catch Him if You Can Leonardo DiCaprio to produce documentary about global warming Eco-minded actor Leonardo DiCaprio -- who tools around L.A. in a Prius and has been outspoken about issues like worldwide access to potable water -- is now bringing a tree-hugging message to film. According to spokesdude Ken "Walkin' on" Sunshine (we made that middle part up), DiCaprio has starte ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, climate, green living, Leonardo DiCaprio, movies, news (all these topics) |
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